Browsing Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management by Subject "Prisons"

Measures to address the issues of juvenile crime and the problem of young people in
trouble with the law are areas of international concern. Violent crime is mostly
perpetrated by young people between the ages 14 and 25. ...

In 1997, the Government of the Republic of South Africa introduced the Criminal Law
Amendment Act 105 of 1997, which legislated minimal mandatory sentencing, in an
attempt to reduce levels of violent crime in the country. ...